In trying to keep up with this new CPSIA law that went into effect today, I have been pulling out my hair. There have been many tell-tale signs that the world is going crazy, but nothing quite says it like a law that is requiring books published before 1985 to be banned from stores, libraries, online selling, and everything and anything in between. At first, it was like a bad dream... could it be that those who makes laws in our government have went off the deep end?
My beautiful books with pages filled with some of the best stories ever written. Stories that cannot be duplicated, stories from writers long dead in the grave that had imaginations teeming with ideas and creativity. Not only are things not made like they used to be, but books are not written nearly as well either. I hardly bother with modern literature. It is either fluffy or over the top in abstraction and idealism. I want wholesome, true, and well crafted stories to fill my head. Writers from the past weren't distracted by all the things that consume us in our modern age. Louisa May Alcott - a homely, single country gal spent all her free time writing stories for children and adolescents about maturity, achieving adulthood and becoming a person of character. There are no Louisa May Alcotts any longer. Those days are gone when women writing under pen names and mousy exteriors produced magnificent masterpieces. We are not tried and true. We do not lead lives filled with hardship that gives birth to genius. We are too soft and so when I am told by my silly, empty headed, virtue-less government to basically throw those "contaminated" books in the fire, I shake my head with sorrow.
It seems so dramatic and ridiculous that people can't even take personal responsibility for what they buy anymore. Someone needs to be the scapegoat. How can lawyers sleep at night who support such cases? It is a wonder that they line their pockets with the gold earned by degeneracy. How sad that a generation from now will not be able to see and read of the virtues of the past, the wisdom passed down, the stuff that makes a people great.
With this said, please, please, please seize the moment and buy vintage children's books. If this law is going to be reinforced like it looks to be, then it will be a travesty of our age.
The books pictured here are from Etsy.Com Vintage Sellers including myself :):
www.elizabethwrenvintage.etsy.com
www.inktiques.etsy.com
www.molehilltreasures.etsy.com
www.labrocanterie.etsy.com
I am so upset about all of this. I wrote Amy Klobuchar and Betty McCollum (I'm a fellow Minnesotan;)) about this and received a vague letter back from McCollum this week. Goodwill has pulled much of it's children's clothes and toys. Except for about 50 Hannah Montana games Target donated. Oh, the painful irony. There were still lots of books though.
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